why suicide among punjab farmers?

The high price of cotton on the international market which caused for many farmers in Punjab and other areas to switch to cotton. They did not realise that international prices for agricultural commodities are highly volatile and they tend to fluctuate.Thus when the prices fell and some harvests also failed because of various pest and untimely rains these farmers were in deep distress and many of them committed suicide. At the heart of the agricultural crisis and the farmers suicides are the raising costs of production. The costs of seeds, pesticides, fertilisers and machinery are too much to bear for marginal and small farmers still these farmers will purchase these inputs because they do not wish to be backward. The companies who sell these agricultural products together with the moneylenders are the ones who are benefiting from this agricultural system.
These agricultural companies are in large part multinationals who are gaining more and more foothold in the Indian rural areas as a result of the liberalisation of agriculture in concordance with the Agreement on Agriculture.

main exam

the prelims result was announced today and i was selected for the main examination which is scheduled last week of october

coaching

today i ve joined coaching for geography classes in ensemble by sidhartha sir. the coaching fee is rs 30000 and the classes will continue upto august end.

ars exam

the agricultural research scientists exam came exactly next week to prelims. exam was good yesterday and i attempted all the subjective questions in the afternoon ie 20 questions in two and a half hours and in the morning session i left 8 objective questions totally as there is one fourth of the negative marks for each question.

prelims exam

last week i was busy with preliminary exam and the date of exam was 17/05/2008. after the exam i felt comfortable as i made satisfactory answers for the questions i ve touched. i made 85 net answers in agriculture and 57 net answers in gs. i hope i ll qualify for the mains examination.

poverty

though poverty in india is declining in the percentage terms it is not as such in the actual numbers. in this i feel education is the prime tool that bring change. as an educated youth and having the ability to support, atleast intellectualy, i need models that how the educated youth of today support the society in changing this worse scenario.